How to format your references using the Journal of Colloid And Interface Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Y. Li, The evolution of reputation-based partner-switching behaviors with a cost, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5957.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Bishopp, M.J. Bennett, Plant biology: Seeing the wood and the trees, Nature 517 (2015) 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Mulepati, A. Héroux, S. Bailey, Structural biology. Crystal structure of a CRISPR RNA-guided surveillance complex bound to a ssDNA target, Science 345 (2014) 1479–1484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G.A. Cope, G.S.B. Suh, L. Aravind, S.E. Schwarz, S.L. Zipursky, E.V. Koonin, R.J. Deshaies, Role of predicted metalloprotease motif of Jab1/Csn5 in cleavage of Nedd8 from Cul1, Science 298 (2002) 608–611.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

V. Cicek, B. Al-Numan, Corrosion Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Broadbent, V. Brockman, eds., East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region, Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Faye, Adding Scepticism About ‘Environmentality’: Gender Exclusion Through a Natural Resources Collectivization Initiative in Dionewar, Senegal, in: P. Bose, H. van Dijk (Eds.), Dryland Forests: Management and Social Diversity in Africa and Asia, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 95–114.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Colloid And Interface Science.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Human Gut Cells Coaxed Into Producing Insulin, IFLScience (2014).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Intellectual Property: State Immunity in Infringement Actions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.L. Boyle, Relationship between managerial responsiveness, managerial approachability, and prosocial voice among acute-care registered nurses, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2014.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

L. Marx, A Love of Adventure Leads to Love Near Home, New York Times (2017) ST11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Colloid And Interface Science
Abbreviation	J. Colloid Interface Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-9797
Scope	Colloid and Surface Chemistry Biomaterials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Surfaces, Coatings and Films